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The below guide has been written based on our experiences visiting Switzerland by motorhome and will hopefully give you an idea of what it’s like to travel there. However, things do change, so before you set off it’s worth checking for up to date travel information from the Foreign Office website<\/a>, and the latest driving regulations on the AA website<\/a>. At the bottom of the guide we’ve added links to our daily updates while we were in Switzerland, so you can live the adventure with us.<\/p>\n

So far we have only spent a couple of days in Switzerland,
\nwe’ll add more information when we next visit the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

General Information\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

Country<\/strong> – Switzerland
\nCapital city<\/strong> – Bern, 506 miles from Dover
\nCurrency<\/strong> – Swiss Franc (SFr\/CHf) 100 Centimes (French)\/Rappen (German) = one Franc
\nLanguages<\/strong> – French, German, Italian, Romansch
\nVisa requirements<\/strong> – Not part of the EU but visas not required for EU citizens staying less than 3 months.
\nBorders<\/strong> – Not part of Schengen zone so passports and documentation (V5 or hire agreement and insurance certificate) needed for borders (although we were waved through without showing ours).
\nTelephone country code<\/strong> – 41
\nEmergency numbers<\/strong> – 117 Police, 118 Fire, 144 Ambulance<\/p>\n

Our visits<\/h3>\n

May 2012
\n<\/strong>Duration<\/strong> – 2 days
\nRoute<\/strong> – Drove north along east coast of Lake Maggiore in Italy, then south and across Lake d’Lugano at Lugano, stopping off in Meride then south back into Italy at Como.
\nMiles driven<\/strong> – 37
\nAverage daily spend<\/strong> – \u20ac55.07 – skewed as we were only there two nights and filled up with diesel
\nAverage spend on overnight stops<\/strong> – \u20ac17.99 (2 nights on camping cheque site – \u20ac15 for camping cheque, \u20ac2.99 for local taxes)<\/p>\n

Costs<\/h3>\n

Diesel
\n<\/strong>1.91CHf (\u20ac1.59) was cheaper than in Italy so we took the opportunity to nip across the border and fill up.<\/p>\n

LPG
\n<\/strong>Did not fill up with LPG<\/p>\n

Eating out
\n<\/strong>We’ve only spent two days in Switzerland so far and both were on a campsite in the countryside, so we didn’t have the opportunity to eat out.<\/p>\n

Supermarkets<\/strong> – supermarket used local store.<\/p>\n